Practical uses of git reset --soft?

Question

I have been working with git for just over a month. Indeed I have used reset for the first time only yesterday, but the soft reset still doesn\'t make much sense to me.

Answer 1

Another potential use is as an alternative to stashing (which some people don't like, see e.g. https://codingkilledthecat.wordpress.com/2012/04/27/git-stash-pop-considered-harmful/).

For example, if I'm working on a branch and need to fix something urgently on master, I can just do:

git commit -am "In progress."

then checkout master and do the fix. When I'm done, I return to my branch and do

git reset --soft HEAD~1

to continue working where I left off.